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(2) | None | `It was the scream of a man in the extremest agony of pain and terror. His eyes still stared into the soldiers face, but the fury had left them like a flame suddenly extinguished.'These stories are a macabre celebration of the ingenuity of murder. Victims meet their ends in ways which are sometimes gruesome, sometimes tragic, but always imaginative - involving methods as diverse as sword swallowing, triggered bank vaults, and exploding sweets. In some cases the murderermakes a critical slip, allowing a sufficiently cunning detective to solve the crime, but in at least one the perpetrator succeeds in committing the perfect murder ... a chilling but curiously admirable act, which has a breathtaking subtlety in its execution.Jack Adrian's collection brings together stories by well-known writers in the genre, such as F. Tennyson Jesse, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (1)▾Book descriptions `It was the scream of a man in the extremest agony of pain and terror. His eyes still stared into the soldiers face, but the fury had left them like a flame suddenly extinguished.'These stories are a macabre celebration of the ingenuity of murder. Victims meet their ends in ways which are sometimes gruesome, sometimes tragic, but always imaginative - involving methods as diverse as sword swallowing, triggered bank vaults, and exploding sweets. In some cases the murderermakes a critical slip, allowing a sufficiently cunning detective to solve the crime, but in at least one the perpetrator succeeds in committing the perfect murder ... a chilling but curiously admirable act, which has a breathtaking subtlety in its execution.Jack Adrian's collection brings together stories by well-known writers in the genre, such as F. Tennyson Jesse, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - An Illustration of Modern Science (1896) / Richard Marsh (1857-1915)
- The Man Who Disappeared (1901) / L.T. Meade (1844-1914) & Robert Eustace (1868-1943)
- Fogbound (1901) / B. Fletcher Robinson (1872-1907) & J. Malcolm Fraser
- The Murder at the "Port Helm" (1910) / Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
- The Profiteers (1924) / H.C. Bailey (1878-1961)
- The Windmill (1928) / Nicholas Olde
- The Murder in the Stalls (1929) / A.G. Macdonell (1895-1941)
- Last Times (1932) / F. Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958)
- Professor Wilkins Chances the Yard (1936) / Edgar Jepson (1864-1938) & Robert Eustace (1868-1943)
- The Real Thing (1937) / Dornford Yates (1885-1961)
- Portrait of a Murderer (1942) / Q. Patrick (1912-87)
- The Monster (1951) / Vincent Cornier (1898-1876)
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